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...millions in the Northeast learned during the 2003 blackout, anything but infallible. In 2006, Home Power magazine estimated that more than 180,000 U.S. homes were supplying their own power. "Some people want to minimize their impact on the environment," says Dave Black, a disaster-response consultant and expert in off-the-grid living. "Some people want to ensure they have service if there's an outage. And some people just want to look green." (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...Transition Network's Gray suggests more localized health-care efforts, including networks of trained medical workers, educational programs teaching nutrition, first-aid and self-care, and expert-patient teaching opportunities. She proposes that by increasing insurance coverage of so-called alternative medicine - including low-energy practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, nutritionists and herbalists - more patients might seek greener care...
...their hometowns in Java but I don't think there will be on a larger scale as people have seen the suffering and the majority of Muslims disagree with what they did," says Masdar Hilmy, a professor at the State Islamic University of Islam in Surabaya and an expert on radical Islam. "Mass organizations like the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have also called on their followers to not be influenced by radical propaganda...
...fuel efficiency for a manufacturer's entire fleet; automakers have to meet that standard or pay a fine. But the current measured CAFE standards, nationally, of about 27.5 m.p.g. for cars and 22.2 m.p.g. for light trucks has little to do with real-world performance. John DeCicco, the automotive expert for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), estimates that in actual driving, the current measured CAFE standard, for cars, is closer to 22 m.p.g, and, for trucks, closer to 18 m.p.g. "It's longstanding common knowledge that the government has been keeping two sets of books on fuel economy for decades...
Lectures on distinguished artists are a dime a dozen, particularly at Harvard. But it’s rare for an expert to speak about an artist immediately after the artist herself has spoken. This was exactly what took place at the Harvard Ceramics Studio last Saturday when a lecture by Magdalene Odundo, a distinguished African ceramicist, was followed by History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne Blier’s talk about the significance of Odundo’s work in the intellectual and artistic community. “I’ve never...